Industry News

The Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering has selected Space Plan Interiors as interior designer for its 70-acre Needham campus. Slated for completion in early 2002, four buildings totalling 300,000-sf will be programmed, designed, and furnished by Space Plan Interiors.

The La Jolla Institute of Allergy and Immunology contracted Bilbro Construction Co. for remodeling and tenant improvement of 1,500 sf in an occupied biomedical lab facility. The $250,000 project was designed by Architects Delawie Wilkes Rodriguez Barker and engineered by TKG Consulting Engineers.

Xoma Ltd., a Berkeley-based biopharmaceutical firm, has planned a $25 million expansion of its existing protein-manufacturing factory. The larger facility will allow Xoma to accommodate more contract work from biotech companies.

Hale Manufacturing Company is planning to build an 80,000-sf facility on eight-plus acres near its present plant and offices in central New York State's Herkimer County. Completion is expected by late fall 2001. The company is a specialist in the design and manufacture of primarily solid wood and fine-wood veneer bookcases, and related wood storage cabinetry. The new facility will allow Hale to consolidate three present disparate sites into a single, larger one-story building with integrated manufacturing, finishing and shipping operations.

King Products Inc. has won architectural sign contracts in excess of $2 million to provide way finding signs for the main terminal at Dulles International Airport in Washington, D.C., and for Terminal "F" at the Philadelphia International Airport in Pennsylvania.